UNDP, the Governments of Tajikistan, Japan and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) signed off today on a new, two and half year project that will see 160,000 people benefit from a safer, better run border.

Kyiv - Ukraine - To better respond to the growing need to record human rights violations in the east of Ukraine, the UN Development Programme (UNDP) is supporting a number of civic human rights monitors and investigators to ensure that human rights are upheld and violations are accounted for.

Santiago, Chile - UN Development Programme Administrator Helen Clark stressed today that all leaders, especially women in top positions, have an obligation to improve the lives of other women and girls.

UNDP, together with Brazil’s National Secretariat for Protection and Civil Defense, has established a four-day course on disaster risk management so as to strengthen the capacity of civil defense first responders.

Freetown, Sierra Leone - A group of young wheelchair-bound men barrel down a busy street hustling cars for a few leones. The money they collect is meagre - and gets less and less as the Ebola crisis pushes them further towards the fringes of society.

New York - A range of new mobile Apps and digital games have been hailed by international experts as world-beating examples of how technology can boost peace, break barriers and smash damaging stereotypes.

With populations growing, some estimates suggest annual infrastructure spending in developing countries must increase between US$1.8-2.3 trillion each year by 2020, and more of these resources must come from the private sector through public-private partnerships, according to Magdy Martínez-Solimán, UNDP’s Director of Bureau for Policy and Programme Support.

In a primary school in Nsanje, Southern Malawi, children have given up their classrooms and school yard for over 500 displaced families who fled the devastating floods that hit the poor African nation in January.